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Geological Setting and Genesis of Stratabound Barite Deposits at Múzquiz, Coahuila in Northeastern Mexico View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Geological setting and genesis of stratabound barite deposits at Múzquiz, Coahuila in northeastern Mexico Francisco González-Sánchez a,*, Eduardo González-Partida b, Carles Canet c, Viorel Atudorei e, Pura Alfonso f, Pedro Morales-Puente g, Edith Cienfuegos-Alvarado g, Luis González-Ruiz d a Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Tacámbaro, Av. Tecnológico 201, Zona El Gigante, 61650 Tacámbaro, Michoacán, Mexico b Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Boulevard Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico c Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, D.F., Mexico d Geologia Minería y Consultoría, Av. Zaragoza 332-A int 51, Col. Niños Heroes, CP 76010 Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico e Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA f Departament d'Enginyeria Minera i Recursos Naturals, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. de les Bases de Manresa 61–73, 08242 Manresa, Catalonia, Spain g Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, D.F, Mexico * corresponding author: [email protected] 1 ABSTRACT The opening of the Gulf ofMexico during the Mesozoic led to the formation of the Sabinas Basin. Large carbonate platformswere developed throughout the Lower andMiddle Cretaceous. The basin provided ideal conditions for the formation of a suite of carbonate- hosted, stratabound deposits such as barite, celestine, fluorite, and lead–zinc of Barremian– Aptian age. These deposits resemble Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) and associated deposits. The mining district of Sierra de Santa Rosa is located approximately ~7 km SE from Melchor Múzquiz in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. Barite is the economic mineral and the shape of the ore bodies is considered “mantos”, the gangue minerals are calcite, local gypsum, traces of celestine, silica, and iron (oxy) hydroxides. The barite deposits show relict textures such as rhythmic, alternating black and white bands due to the presence of organic matter, and globular clusters similar to the “chicken-wire” anhydrite, typical of evaporites. A fluid inclusion and stable isotope analysis (S frombarite, C and O from carbonates) were conducted. The lower manto yielded a melting ice temperature between −26 °C and −5 °C (salinities of 7.9 to 27 wt.% NaCl equiv.) and a homogenization temperature ranged between 59 °C to 155 °C. The eutectic temperature was −51 °C ± 2 °C denoting a primary calcic brine. The upper manto yielded a melting ice temperature between−22 °C and−15 °C (salinities of 18.6 and 24 wt.% NaCl equiv.) and a homogenization temperature was ranging from 60 °C to 126 °C. Isotopic analysis of barite 34 showed δ SVCDT ranges from +14.9‰ to +19.5‰ (average of 16.9‰). Sulfur isotope data for barite from the Sierra de Santa Rosa is consistent with a sulfur source formed during the Lower Cretaceous, which coincides with the age of the Cupido Formation. The carbon 13 isotope analysis of the host limestone yielded a δ CVPDB range from −0.01‰ to +0.11‰. The δ13C values for clear and gray calcites ranged from −0.15‰ to −1.5‰, and−1.41‰to−2.3‰, respectively. The oxygen isotope analysis showed a range between 18 δ OVSMOW −4.55‰and−10.04‰. Fluid inclusionmicrothermometry and isotopic measurements lead us to conclude that brines fromthe Sabinas Basin led to the replacement of the evaporite strata (gypsum) by barite in the Cupido Formation and thus classify these deposits within the category of MVT and associated deposits. 2 1. Introduction The sedimentary-diagenetic domain of northeastern Mexico are: 1) sedimentary- exhalative or SEDEX deposits, like the manganese Molango deposit in Hidalgo, (Zantop, 1978; Alexandri and Martínez, 1986; Okita, 1992); 2) Mississippi Valley-type and associated deposits of: fluorite, such as La Sabina and El Tule in Coahuila and Las Cuevas in San Luis Potosí; celestine, such as La Tinaja and San Agustin in Coahuila (González- Sánchez et al. 2007); barite, such as La Paila, and Mayran in Coahuila and La Huicha in Nuevo Leon (Clark and De la Fuente, 1978; Kesler and Jones, 1981; Puente-Solís, et al., 2005; Camprubí, 2009, 2013); Zn–Pb sulfides, such as Sierra Mojada and Reforma in Coahuila and El Diente in Nuevo Leon; 3) Cu–Co deposits; such as, El Huizachal in Tamaulipas, San Marcos in Coahuila, and El Coyote and Las Vigas in Chihuahua, (Clark and De la Fuente, 1978); and 4) U deposits in detrital sequences, or Kupferschiefer-type “red beds”; such as, Sierra de Gómez in Chihuahua, and El Nopal, Las Margaritas, La Coma and Buenavista in Tamaulipas. With the exception of the SEDEX deposit, which is largely syngenetic, these deposits are epigenetic and occur in basins of Mesozoic–Cenozoic age associated with the opening of the Gulf of Mexico, with themajority of themin the states of Coahuila and Chihuahua (Fig. 1). Actually there are some comprehensive reviews such as (González-Sánchez et al., 2007, 2009; Caballero-Martínez and Sánchez-Rojas, 2011; and Camprubí, 2009, 2013). None of these deposits have been properly dated and age estimations are only available for the SEDEX deposit, the stratigraphic correlation suggests a relative age for these deposits that ranges from Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian (?), (Soto- Pineda, 1960; Imlay, 1937; Vivanco-Flores, 1976; and Okita, 1992). Despite the lack of geochronological determinations for the sedimentary-diagenetic deposits, and according to González-Sánchez et al. (2007, 2009), we may, nevertheless, speculate about a tentative timing for the deposition of MVT and clastic sediment-hosted ore deposits relative to the orogenic pulses in the region, suggesting a possible pre-Sevier, syn-Sevier, syn-Laramide and post-Laramide deposits. Among the mineralized basins, the one that presents the clearest regional anatomy is the Sabinas basin in Coahuila, for which González- Sánchez et al. (2007, 2009) and García- Alonso et al. (2011) determined the preferential distribution of the differentmineralogical 3 types of MVT and associated deposits and ‘red-bed’ deposits as follows: 1) Pb–Zn and barite occur deep in the basin or close to the San Marcos Fault, the southernmost main fault delimiting the basin, and are formed from the hottest and most saline mineralizing brines in the region; 2) celestine and fluorite deposits occur on the margins of the basin near the San Marcos and La Babia Faults, the southernmost and northernmost main faults in the region, in shallow stratigraphic sections and are associated with dilute and relatively cool fluids; and 3) Cu–Co–Ni–Zn red-bed deposits occur in clastic formations along the main faults as the products of deposition from highly saline and relatively cool brines. The barite deposits atMúzquiz constitute the paramount example of the first category ofMVT-like deposits in this region. Thismining district is located in the Santa Rosa Range, about 7 km southeast of Múzquiz in the central part of Coahuila. The barite deposits have been mined since 1936 and historically are the third largest barite producer in the country. A fairly steady monthly production of 4000 t of barite concentrate has been delivered since the 1980s by the mining company, Barita de Santa Rosa (BAROSA), out of the mineralized mantos hosted in the Lower Cretaceous Cupido Formation. The barite ores are present along a ~20 km NW-striking mineralized area on the northeastern flank of the Santa Rosa Range. They are banded stratabound bodies composed of high-purity barite and smaller, non-economic ore bodies of Pb–Zn in the upper levels of the barite deposits at the base of the Georgetown Formation (González-Sánchez et al., 2009) with karstic voids and fractures filled by Pb–Zn sulfides (González-Sánchez, 2008). Geological, microthermometric, and isotopic data provided in this paper are focused on defining the genesis of the stratabound barite deposits of Múzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico. 2. Geology The structural and paleogeographic features of northeasternMexico during theMesozoicwere determined by threemajor geological events. First, the opening of the Gulf of Mexico due to extension related to the breakup of Pangea and the rifting-apart of the Yucatán Block in a southward direction, wherein it reached its approximate present position by the Middle of the Jurassic (Marton and Buffler, 1994; Pindell and Kennan, 2001) and provoked the subsequent formation of several sedimentary basins. This event 4 determined the formation and architecture of the Sabinas Basin, among others. Second, the development of broad sedimentary platforms on raised blocks between the Lower and the Middle Cretaceous, which was responsible for formation of lithological units of carbonate and local evaporites (Enos, 1974, 1983; Wilson, 1975; Smith, 1981; Goldhammer and Johnson, 2001). Third, the subduction processes from the Paleo-Pacific margin and the Laramide orogeny associated with them eventually extended into this region, especially during the Cenozoic (Camprubí, 2009, 2013). Despite the concomitance of various types of magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits with such processes, there is no relationship between these and the deposits identified as MVT or red-bed-type deposits by González-Sánchez et al. (2007, 2009). The Sabinas Basin was bound by the Coahuila paleoisland to the south across the San Marcos Fault, the Burro-Peyotes paleo-peninsula to the north and east across the La Babia Fault, and the Tamaulipas paleo-archipelago to the east and was connected to some degree with the Chihuahua Basin to the west and the La Popa Basin to the southeast. Such positive and negative paleo-geographic featureswere limited by normal faults in a horst-and-graben arrangement. These features controlled sedimentation (Padilla Y Sánchez, 1986), and would also eventually control the emplacement of sedimentary brines into shallower portions of the stratigraphic section, wherein the formation of MVT and red-bed deposits occurred (González-Sánchez et al., 2007, 2009; García-Alonso et al., 2011).
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